Ophiopsammium semperi Lyman, 1874

Fatemi, Yaser & Stöhr, Sabine, 2019, Annotated species list of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, with new records, Zootaxa 4711 (1), pp. 77-106 : 92

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scientific name	Ophiopsammium semperi Lyman, 1874
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Ophiopsammium semperi Lyman, 1874: 232 , pl. 4, figs 11–17.

Habitat: Coral reef, on a Gorgonian, soft clay with sand, hard clay, 15–51 m ( Mortensen 1940).

Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman: Bushehr (2), Qeshm Island (10), Khoor Mousa (30), Bandar-Imam (31) (ibid.).

Indian Ocean: Red Sea ( Clark & Rowe 1971).

Remarks: This species may have been misidentified by Mortensen (1940) and confused with Ophiothela venusta ( Peyghan et al. 2018) . It has not been found since Mortensen’s (1940) record and it is therefore unclear if the species occurs in the study area.

References

Clark, A. M. & Rowe, F. W. E. (1971) Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 234 pp.

Lyman, T. (1874) Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae, new and old. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Cambridge, 3, 221 - 272. Available from: https: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 6705490 (Accessed 12 Dec. 2019)

Mortensen, T. (1940) Echinoderms from the Iranian Gulf. Asteroidea, Ophiuroidea, and Echinoidea. Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran, Part 2, 55 - 112.

Peyghan, S., Doustshenas, B., Nabavi, M. B., Rounagh, M. T., Larki, A. A. & Stohr, S. (2018) New records of the brittle stars Ophiothela venusta and Ophiactis modesta (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the northern Persian Gulf, with morphological details. Zootaxa, 4527 (3), 425 - 435. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4527.3.11